Pasta

Since the beginning of the thirteenth century with the creation of lasagna sheets and fermented cheese, humanity has had a craving for macaroni and cheese. More than eight centuries later, macaroni and cheese has become a household item, although now it is referred to using a simplified form: mac and cheese. The United States is very familiar with mac and cheese. Not only has it remained on the top ten list of comfort foods for the past decade, approximately one third of the U. S. population…

the cultural variety within Italian cuisine. In fact, “Italian cuisine has influenced food culture around the world and is viewed as a form of art by many” (Zimmermann, 2015). Influenced by the Mediterranean diet, the Italian culture incorporates pastas, vegetables, wines, and fish. Although Italy, totally, focuses on these four components, “there are regional differences in what is eaten and how food is prepared” ("Culture of Italy - history, people, clothing, women, beliefs, food, customs,…

lasagna, I was able to put the lasagna in the oven and go into the living room where we shared our meal. We were able to talk and spend time together before eating instead of me being in the kitchen making sure to stir the sauce or making sure that the pasta didn’t over cook. The lasagna was served from the plastic container that it is baked in. With the frozen meal, the clean up time was a lot less than what it had been with the homemade spaghetti dinner. There was not rave reviews about how…

Culture is a unique way that family forms itself in terms of rules roles habit activities and beliefs. Every family is different in its own way as seen in the Angelino family factor such as the: Tradition. As we are told the Angelino family grand parents emigrated from Italy in 1904,the family was famous of its own Italian sausage which can be seen as part of their tradition, they had larger family of five expecting the sixth one showing a tradition of many children, there grandparent mama…

SHORT INTRODUCTION Most people will never forget to put garlic when they cook. It does not matter what type of food, garlic stands out as the most popular ingredient in culinary setting. Set aside the tasty flavor, garlic also has tons of benefits to the body such as reducing risk of heart diseases, fighting cancer, maintaining blood pressure, treating diabetes, improving dementia symptoms, and many more. Garlic has a long history (back from the ancient Egyptian era) of being used to tackle…

Mac and cheese on a collage budget There comes a time in every broke collage kid’s life where you get sick of cafeteria food. There is nothing wrong with it, you just can’t seem to make yourself go down to that dining hall and eat another slice of pizza. Being a broke collage kid comes with many hurtles to jump over. Can 't afford to take your significant other out for a nice meal? Macaroni and cheese can solve most of your problems. But why have just any old mac and cheese? Spruce it up a…

PEOPLE LOVE PIZZA BECAUSE… Have you ever wondered why pizza is so loved all over the world by billions of people? It is technically a very difficult to know as to why everyone really love pizza. One of the major reasons is probably the fact that it is versatile, because you can literally put anything on a pizza, you can put any type of food for your toppings. There are pizza places where they put chocolate instead of tomato sauce, and fruits instead of cheese or meat. It would also depend on a…

The purpose of my experiment is to determine if the brining meat reaction in the meat causes a richer flavor and keep it moist and if blanching method enhances the texture of rice noodles rather than plainly boiling them. My two questions for this experiment are “ Does brining the 16/20 shrimp before grilling it enhance the richness of the flavor and moisture ?” and “ Does blanching the rice noodle instead of plainly boiling enhance the texture of noodles?’ With the first question, I have…

Henslin (2012) defines culture as: “the language, beliefs, values, norms, behaviors, and even material objects that are passed from one generation to the next” (p. 42). My culture and ethnicity happens to be Italian. Even though, I have two parents from different ethnic backgrounds I experienced absolutely little in relation to my mother’s. On the other hand, my father’s ethnicity is what myself and my siblings were raised with and experienced. Inside different cultures there are material…

“The Final Meal” Going to see The Last Supper: 700 Plates Illustrating Final Meals of U.S. Death Row Inmates was an amazing experience. This artwork is displayed in the Texas State art galleries on the second floor. Julia Green the artist put detail into each plate to display what foods inmates craved or refused to have right before being executed. These plates allowed you to take a guess on what race, religion, and culture these people where from without knowing who they were. Julia used…